Location: St Silas Church, Glasgow, Scotland
Hours: Full-Time
Salary: £37,000-£39,000 per annum
Closing date: 13th November 2025
Role:
We are hiring a Church Operations Manager.
PURPOSE :
To provide operational leadership and management, helping translate vision into advanced planning and strategic priorities, and overseeing effective implementation.
To work collaboratively with and provide guidance to the other members of the Leadership team and Vestry, to help St Silas thrive and fulfil its vision .
To be responsible (with support from other staff and volunteers) for the operational management of the church’s resources of people, buildings, IT and finances, developing effective, efficient and flexible administrative processes, and robust and appropriate structures for leadership, management, and governance (including statutory compliance).
TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
To provide operational leadership and management, helping translate vision into advanced planning and strategic priorities, and overseeing effective implementation.
Development and strategy/planning for church operations Proactively identify, analyse, and solve operational challenges, leading initiatives to enhance efficiency and ministry impact.
Oversee the management and delivery of projects, events, and activities across the church calendar.
As needed, assist with church communications delivery (examples: copywriting, announcements, newsletters, etc.).
Support ministry team leaders in their roles of recruiting, overseeing, and coaching those involved in their areas of ministry and ensuring pathways and pipelines are transparent.
Oversee and support ministry coordinators and administrators for areas of church life, whether volunteers or staff, so that roles for volunteers can be defined, recruited for and supported.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:
This is a full time (37.5 hours per week), permanent position based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Salary Range: £37,000 - £39,000 (depending on experience).
Holiday Entitlement: 25 days paid. The post also includes one week of paid development/volunteering leave per year either to attend a Christian conference or to attend a ministry event.
Pension: You will be auto enrolled into Nest Pension Scheme, and St Silas will make a contribution of 10% of your annual salary, rising to 12.5% depending on the level of employee contributions.
Work days: This is a Monday - Friday working role, but regular Sunday attendance and involvement are expected.
Study days: Two per year, which should have a beneficial work-related outcome.
Working Location: St Silas Church, Glasgow, Scotland (work from home days may be permitted from time to time as needed). Working device provided.
It is important that the post holder can represent the mission and values of St Silas in all aspects of the role, and there is therefore an occupational requirement to be a mature, committed Christian, as permitted under Schedule 9, Part 1, of the Equality Act 2010.
How to apply: For more information please email admin@stsilas.org.uk
About the church:
St Silas is an evangelical church located in the heart of Glasgow’s West End. By God’s grace, we have experienced numerical growth in recent years, and our congregation is made up of a wide range of nationalities, ages, and life stages.
We are part of GAFCON’s Anglican Network in Europe.
At St Silas, we are all about Jesus. Our vision is to reach as many people as possible with the glorious news about Jesus; to grow up in Christ as a community, loving others well; and to equip people to serve Christ for a lifetime, sending them out to bring God’s word to a needy world.
We are committed to the theology of the Jerusalem Statement 2008, the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, including the 39 Articles of Religion, an expression of the Christian faith that is committed to the one, triune God, the authority of the Bible as God’s Word, the historic creeds of the Church, the atoning death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and justification by faith alone.
On Sundays, we meet across three services, two in the morning and one in the evening. Our 11:30 service is recorded and live-streamed, and our 18:30 service is also recorded. Once a month, we gather together mid-week as a congregation to pray on a Wednesday evening.
During the week, we have various groups that meet to reach out to our community and to disciple our church family. These groups range from our Roots ministry for students and young adults, mid-week Growth Groups that meet across the city, a women’s Bible study on Mondays, Friday Night Live, Dangerous Club and Mainly Music groups for youth and children, as well as an international café and regular Christianity Explored courses.
Our staff team is made up of our Rector, an associate minister, a women’s worker, a youth worker, two part-time leaders in training, and a ministry support team of three.
We are a training church and run a ministry apprentice programme. At present, we have four ministry apprentices.
In January 2026, our church plant in Glasgow’s East End will launch. This will see a small proportion of our church family sent out to reach a part of the city where there is great gospel need.
With the growth of the church has come an opportunity to review how we can best support our ministry structures. Our desire is that our operations, compliance, and administration is the best it can be in order to release our staff and church family to reach, grow, and send without hinderance and with joy. To facilitate that, the Vestry has determined to appoint an Operations Manager to work closely with the Rector, Vestry and staff team to consolidate, review, and develop our operational and compliance structures.
Website: Visit our church website at http://www.stsilas.org.uk/